Hood for automobiles.



PATENTED AUG. 28, 1906.

(3. WRIGHT.

HOOD FOR AUTOMOBILES.

APPLICATION FILED 001. 2a 1905.

CHRISTOPHER aienr,

OFv CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

HOOD FOR AUTOMOBILES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 28, 1906.

Application filed October 23,1905. Serial No. 283,985.

To coll whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHRISTOPHER WRIGHT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hoods for Automobiles, of which the following is a'specification.

The hood forming the subject of the present invention is that which conceals the motor or engine and other operative parts of the car when these are arranged at the front. These hoods are made of sheet metal and are preferably and in most cases made in a plurality of sections hinged or jointed together, so that when it becomes necessary to have access to the motor mechanism the sections can be thrown back. In a popular type now in use the hood comprises four sections-a top or roof, which is usually curved and medals in two sections hinged or jointed along the longitudinal center, and two vertical side sections, which are jointed to.the top or roof. The hinge is of the ordinary door-hinge con,- struction, comprising alined tubular sections on the two adjacent members and a shaft or pintle occupying them and serving as a pivotal supporting connection abou, which they turn. 2:

The present invention has for its object the provision of a hood which shall have the advantages of this hinged or jointed construction, but which shall be free from objectionable features of this construction as it has heretofore existed. The principal objection to it has been that it admits water at the hinge-joints, and in order to obviate this I provide the top or roof of the hood with eaves and hin e or joint it "and the sides behind-or beneat these eaves, so that the eaves shed the water beyond and below the hingejoints and prevent any water from coming in contact with the joints under any circumstances whatsoever. These eaves, as intimated, efiectually and absolutely prevent the admission of water at the jointsbetween the roof and sides of the hood. It is impossible within the present invention to as effectually prevent the admission of water at the 1011 itudinal joints between the two sections 0? the top or roof, but in order to do line 2 2, Fig. 1.

this to an extent 1 provide one of the two sections with a flan e which s ans the joint and prevents the a mission 0 water to any (nlJHhlflYFLble extent.

I believe myself to be the first to locate the I hinge-joints between the sides and top of the hood behind eaves of whatever construction; but in the specific embodiment of the preferred form of the invention these caves are formed by reflexing the margins of the roof or top inward and upward and by providing the reflexed ortions with the sectional tubular portions that interengage with corre sponding sectional tubular portions on the sides of the hood and together/with the shaft or pintle when the latter is in place complete the hinge-joints.

The invention consists in the features of novelty that are herein described, and in order that it may be fully understood I will describe it with reference to the accompanying drawings, which are made a part of this specification, and in which Figure 1 is a erspective View, on a small scale, of a hoo embodying the invention. Fig. 2 isan approximately vertical section of one side thereof in the plane indicated by the Fig. 3'is a horizontal section of one side thereof in the axial plane of the hinge-joint looking downward. Fig. 4 is an.

enlarged vertical section showing the joint between the two longitudinal sections of the top. Figs. 5 and 6 are enlarged vertical sections on the lines 5 5 and 6 6, respectively, Fig. 1, showing the joint between the top and oneside.

' The hood as a whole comprises a roof or top A, which may be flat. but is preferably arched more or less in order to shed water, and which may be made in one piece, but is preferably made in two pieces hinged together along a central lon itudinal line, as shown at a, and two vertica' or substantially vertical sides B, which are hinged or jointed to the roof or top, where they intersect, as shown at C.

The invention of the present application resides principally in the construction and disposition of the hin e-joints between the sides and the top of t e hood. The .top is formed with overhangin eaves a, which are the result of downwar deflections of the mar ins of the sheet-metalplate or plates of whic the roof or top of the hood is made, and the hinges or joints C, by which the top and sides are connected, are located behind these downwardly-deflected portions, herein called the eaves, and above the horizontal plane of their lower margins, so that the eaves shed the water and perfectly protect the hinge-joints and prevent any water from reaching them.

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cerned solely with the means for preventing water from entering the hood through the hinge-joints. I believe myself to be t 1e first to accomplish this by any means whatsoever,

and therefore desire to have it understood that the invention is not limited to details, but, on tljecontrar includes and comprehends in a device 0 the class described any overlapping part carried by one of two hinged members and breaking the joint of the hinge, particularly where the overlapping part takes the form of a depending cave, which breaks the joint between the top and side of the hood.

As already intimated, it is not racticable within the invention to absolute l y prevent the entrance of water at the hinge-joint between the two sections of the top of the hood; but in order to do this as effectually as possible I provide one of the two sections with a flange A, which is located within the hood and which spans the joint,

Having thus described my invention, the following is what I claim as new therein and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. In a hood for automobiles a tdp or roof formed in two longitudinal sections hinged or jointed together, one of said sections bein provided with a flange or extension whici overlaps or breaks the hinge-joint substantially as described.

2. In a hood for automobiles the combina- 1 margins tion of the top and two sides hinged or joint;- ed thereto, the top having eaves coverin and protecting the hinge-joints substantial y as described.

3. In a hood for automobiles the combination of a top and two sides, the top and sides being hinged or jointed together and the top being provided with eaves which extend downward below the hinge-joints, concealing and protecting them, substantially as described.

4. In a hood for automobiles the combination of a top and'two sides hinged or jointed together, the margins of the top being reilexed inward and u ward and provided with tubular sections an the sides being provided with tubular sections, and a pintle occupying the tubular sections, substantially as described.

5. In a hood for automobiles, the combination of a top formed in two longitudinal sections hinged together, one of said sections having a flan e or projection breaking, or overlapping, t e joint, and two sides hin ed or jointed to the top, the top being rovi ed vsdth eaves depending on the outsi e of the hinge-joints, substantially as described.

6. A hood for automobiles havin in combination, a top sloping downwar in both directions from the longitudinal center, the of said top being reflexed inward and upward and provided above the lowermost plane of the reflexed portion with tubular, sectional hinge members, and sides provided on their upper margins with tubular, sectional hinge members interengaging with the hinge members of the top, and pintles or pivot-pins occupying and connecting the tubular hinge members of the top and sides, substantially as described.

CHRISTOPHER WRIGHT.

Witnesses:

MELVIN C. Moran, L. M. Hornms. 

